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The Election Commission is likely to announce the poll schedule for these states later this month. New Delhi: With Assembly elections due early next year in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa, the Election Commission today asked ...NDTV, 19 hours ago

Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres was on Thursday appointed as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations by the General Assembly. The 193 member states of the powerful General Assembly adopted the resolution by acclamation, appointing 67-year-old Guterres as the 9th UN Secretary-General to take over from Ban Ki-moon, whose tenure will end on December 31. The 15-nation UN Security Council had last week voted for Guterres by acclamation and forwarded his name to the ...

Tomorrow, December 10 is Human Rights Day. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V), inviting all States and ...

All India Congress Committee General Secretary Digvijay Singh who is currently camping in Goa to shortlist the candidates for upcoming elections had said that the party (Congress) has not received any formal proposal for alliance from any like ...

Considered as semi-finals to the mega finale of the 2019 General Elections, the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in 2017 will be fought under the shadow of 2016. The passing year threw up several issues that will decide the outcome in 2017. Here are ...

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has declared that this year's United Malays National Organisation (Umno) annual general assembly is the best, adding that internal matters within the party have been resolved. From 1976 until ...

Cuba, China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia were among 14 members elected today by the UN General Assembly to the world body's human rights council, but Russia failed to garner enough votes to win the re-election amid rights groups campaign against its role ...

It is not possible to direct the Election Commission to simultaneously conduct general elections and assembly polls across the country and neither is it "feasible", Delhi High Court said on Tuesday. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said this while dismissing a plea by a social worker to hold both Lok Sabha and state assemblies elections jointly at one go. "How is it possible to direct Election Commission of India to conduct assembly elections (in states) ...

India's Aniruddha Rajput has been elected by the UN General Assembly to the International Law Commission (ILC).Rajput received 160 votes on Thursday, outpolling the other nine Asian candidates vying for the seven ILC seats for the region. Among them, Japan's ...